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INVGIGE BLANK.

No. 465,336. Patented Dec. 15, 1891.

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JOSEPH O. BONNER, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN AMES,JR., OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.' 465,336, datedDecember 15, 1891.

Application filed September 9, 1891. Serial lil'u- 405,242. (No model.)

companyin g drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce an invoice-blankV by whichduplicate copies of so much of'an invoice as it is desirable toduplicate may be made.

In shipping goods from one commercial house to another-as, for instance,from a manufacturer to a large wholesale pu`r' Chaser-the purchaserusually requires two separate invoices. One of them should bein thenature of abill setting forth the amount of goods shipped and theirprice. The purpose of thisis to advisethe purchaser of the shipment andthe amount charged against him on the order. The other invoice orduplicate invoice (althoughit is customary in practice t mark each ofthe invoices original or duplicate is provided, in order that thepurchaser may have a checking-slip for the receiving-clerk- On thisduplicate it is desirable that no indication should be given of theprice paid for the goods. The labor of preparing duplicate invoices isin a large business considerable. By my invention I make one writingproduce a required number of duplicate invoices, only one of whichcontains the price paid for the goods, and thereby effect a great savingof time and labor.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l illustrates a pair of invoicesprepared according to my. invention, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 illustratedifferent views of three sheets similarly prepared.

Referring 1o the letters on-the drawings,`A indicates an originalinvoice, or invoice adapted to show the price paid for goods. It may vbemade of paper and have the usual printingsuch,for instance, as the dateand place, name of the buyer, and name of the seller.

B indicates a .duplicate invoice which is shorter than the original, butis long enough to contain all matter descriptive of the or,- der-such,for instance, as the name of the buyer andthe amont and quality of thegoods, as illustrated in the drawings. These invoices are united at oneend, where they may be folded or perforated, as illustrated at C in thedrawings, for convenience of separation, or they may be bound togetherin a book.

In use the sheetsA B, &c., are laidtogether, the one above the other, toconstitute one co mplete in Voice-blank. A statement or invoice is thenwritten upon the top or largest sheet. At the same time provision ismade for duplicating part ot' the statement on the smaller sheet orsheets lying underneath. For inf stance, if the invoice is made out on atypewriter, the duplicate can be copied by the use of carbon-papercoextensive with sheet B, or copying-paper may be used when the order isWritten in ink, or any suitable means of duplication may be employed.

By the use of blanks of this kind it is not necessary to give attentionto writing but the one order, because so much of the order is duplicatedon the blank B as it is desirable for that blank to contain and nothingmore.

It' a greater number of the shorter blanks is desired to be made at thesaine time with the invoice, another blank, as illustrated in Fig. 2 ofvthe drawings, may be united to the end of the blank B and foldedunderneath and the process of duplication repeated with respect to thethird as with the second invoice. desirable, be duplicated in likemanner.

I am aware that it is old to arrange together sheets of the same size tobe laid one upon the other by folding or otherwise for the purpose ofduplicating a writing, and I do not claim the same.

Vhat I claim is- An invoice-blank consisting of the combination of aplurality of sheets, one of which is large enough to contain a fullstatement of goods and prices, and the remainder being ot' smallerdimensions, to be placed underneath the larger sheet, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

I n testimony of all which I have hereunto The larger invoice may ofcourse, it'-

